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Submitted to Contest #105
The classroom has been leeched of colour. I’m not sure when it happened. It’s almost like one day the sound of my classmates’ raucous laughter and mischievous whispers painted the room with bright euphoria, and the next it was gone. The paint was stripped from the walls. A vacuum came along and sucked up the happiness, leaving nothing. Not a spot. Not a mark. Nothing. Lia’s hair curtains her face, the thick strands partly concealing her features, leeched of colour. Her ocean blue eyes seem grey, her lips pale and set in a hard ...
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